Analyzing Whale Sightings Report
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Basic School Sister Maria Goretti
Professor Ahynoa Araya Sáez
Eighth Grade
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Study guide 'The report'
META: Analyze media and recognize the explicit and implicit purposes of
text.
It is a journalistic work of an informative and documentary nature.
Remembering referring to a character, an event, a discovery, or anything
another topic.
Structure of the Report
In the first instance, it has a header that contains the headlines and information that
In this article, we introduce it and highlight its most relevant aspects; next we
develop the informative article in which narration is combined with brief
descriptive brushstrokes.
Now observe in the diagram what has been presented:
Activity
1- Read the following report and then respond.
Searching for whales in the sea
For the first time in the last 10 years, sightings of blue whales and humpback whales
And I know that in the summer period they appear in the Corcovado Gulf sector, it happened in
ocean waters. Why? The La Niña phenomenon would have displaced its food.
Texto:José Miguel JaqueFotografía:Dr. Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete. CBA-UACh
Subject of Language and Communication
Basic School Sister Maria Goretti
Professor Ahynoa Araya Sáez
Eighth Grade
The starting point was Quellón, because they got larger vessels and there was no
previous glimpses from above. "We wouldn’t have taken anything from the hill," comments the
marine biologist from UACH, Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete. This year the whales were not present at the
view from the mainland. If in previous years the cetaceans used to settle 50 meters from the
Melinka bay—which meant a five-minute boat ride—this year the
vessels had to travel more than 100 kilometers offshore to find them. Some
10 hours of travel.
What changed? Blue whales, humpback whales, and sei whales found food in ocean waters and
They stayed there. The usual practice for researchers was to observe them close to the shores.
from Melinka, Raúl Marín Balmaceda or in the Tictoc bay. "Now that area is like a desert,"
says Hucke-Gaete.
For an animal that travels thousands of kilometers during its migration, this displacement
spatial does not pose a warning sign, but does confirm that cetaceans are indicators of
state and of environmental changes par excellence, comments Francisco Viddi, coordinator of
WWF Chile Marine Conservation Program.
Of the three shipments that the researchers made this year, the one in April was the most
sightings left: 27 groups of whales. And that is another of the news from the work in
land of this year. It is known that whales stay in the southern waters of the country looking for
food between November and April, to spend its breeding period in deeper waters
warm: the coasts of Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. But the first expeditions of the
Researchers did not deliver good results. 'In January, we went all the way around the
Guafo Mouth, interior sea of Chiloé and the Chonos archipelago, and the scarcity of whales
it was important. But on the cruise in April, we had more whales and almost all were distributed in
the mouth of Guafo.” This temporal discrepancy is also due to a chain of
responses to productivity processes, temperature changes, currents, among others.
“Será importante llevar a cabo estudios robustos para dilucidar si estos cambios son
evidence of the patterns we are observing related to climate change," concludes
Viddi.
In Trends, The Third
Saturday, June 16, 2012
(fragment)
1- Identify and mark the structure of the report. (in the text)
2- What was the routine that the researchers repeated for nine years?
whales from the Universidad Austral and the Blue Whale Center?
Subject of Language and Communication
Basic School Sister Maria Goretti
Professor Ahynoa Araya Sáez
Eighth Grade
4- What are images used for in the text?
5- Complete the following table with fragments of some resources that the
Report to provide more information.
Resource Fragments
Data
Examples
Quotes
6.- Work with the dictionary of words and then find the meaning of:
a.-Sighting:__________________________________________________________________
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[Link]:____________________________________________________________________
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c.-Visualize:_____________________________________________________________________
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d.-Vessels:________________________________________________________________
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e.-Cetaceans: _________________________________
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